Sustainable Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals

Achievements of MDGs
Sustainable Development Goals
. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
SDG 2
SDG 2
SDG 2
Health Targets for SDG 3
Health Targets for SDG 3
Health Targets for SDG 3
SDG 3: Health-- Indicators by Target
SDG 3: Health-- Indicators by Target
SDG 3: Health-- Indicators by Target
SDG 3: Health-- Indicators by Target
Goal 4 Quality Education
Outcome targets
1. Universal primary and secondary education
By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to
relevant and effective learning outcomes.
What it means:
 The provision of 12 years of free, publicly-funded, inclusive, equitable, quality primary and secondary education – of
which at least nine years are compulsory, leading to relevant learning outcomes – should be ensured for all, without
discrimination.
2. Early childhood development and universal pre-primary education
By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so
that they are ready for primary education.
What it means:
 The provision of at least one year of free and compulsory quality pre-primary education is encouraged, to be delivered by
well-trained educators, as well as that of early childhood development and care.
3. Equal success to technical/ vocational and higher education
By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and
tertiary education, including university
What it means:
 It is imperative to reduce barriers to skills development and technical and vocational education and training
(TVET), starting from the secondary level, as well as to tertiary education, including university, and to
provide lifelong learning opportunities for youth and adults. The provision of tertiary education should be
made progressively free, in line with existing international agreements.
4. Relevant skills for decent work
By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including
technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
What it means:
 Access: Equitable access to TVET needs to be expanded while quality is ensured. Learning
opportunities should be increased and diversified, using a wide range of education and training
modalities.
 Skills acquisition: Beyond work-specific skills, emphasis must be placed on developing high-
level cognitive and non-cognitive/transferable skills, such as problem solving, critical thinking,
creativity, teamwork, communication skills and conflict resolution.
5. Gender equality and inclusion
By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and
vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children
in vulnerable situations.
What it means:
 Inclusion and equity: All people, irrespective of sex, age, race, colour, ethnicity, language, religion,
political or other opinion, national or social origin, property or birth, as well as persons with
disabilities, migrants, indigenous peoples, and children and youth, especially those in vulnerable
situations or other status, should have access to inclusive, equitable quality education and lifelong
learning opportunities.
 Gender equality: All girls and boys, women and men, should have equal opportunity to enjoy
education of high quality, achieve at equal levels and enjoy equal benefits from education. Adolescent
girls and young women, who may be subject to gender-based violence, child marriage, early
pregnancy and a heavy load of household chores, as well as those living in poor and remote rural
areas, require special attention. In contexts in which boys are disadvantaged, targeted action should be
taken for them. Policies aimed at overcoming gender inequality are more effective when they are part
of an overall package that also promotes health, justice, good governance and freedom from child
labour.
6. Universal Youth Literacy
By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and
women, achieve literacy and numeracy.
What it means:
 Action for this target aims at ensuring that by 2030, all young people and adults
across the world should have achieved relevant and recognized proficiency levels
in functional literacy and numeracy skills that are equivalent to levels achieved at
successful completion of basic education.
7. Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development,
including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights,
gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural
diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.
What it means:
 The knowledge, skills, values and attitudes required by citizens to lead productive lives, make informed decisions
and assume active roles locally and globally in facing and resolving global challenges can be acquired through
education for sustainable development and global citizenship education, which includes peace and human rights
education, as well as intercultural education and education for international understanding.
Means of implementation
1. Effective learning environments
Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and
effective learning environments for all.
What it means:
 This target addresses the need for adequate physical infrastructure and safe, inclusive environments that nurture learning for
all, regardless of background or disability status.
2. Scholarships
By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least
developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including
vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in
developed countries and other developing countries.
What it means:
 Where developed countries offer scholarships to students from developing countries, these should be structured to build the
capability of the developing country. While the importance of scholarships is recognized, donor countries are encouraged to
increase other forms of support to education. In line with the SDG4-Education 2030 focus on equity, inclusion and quality,
scholarships should be transparently targeted at young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
3. Teachers and educators
By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher
training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and all island developing States.
What it means:
 Teachers are the key to achieving all of the SDG4 targets. It requires urgent attention, because the equity gap in
education is exacerbated by the shortage and uneven distribution of professionally trained teachers, especially in
disadvantaged areas. As teachers are a fundamental condition for guaranteeing quality education, teachers and
educators should be empowered, adequately recruited and remunerated, motivated, professionally qualified, and
supported within well-resourced, efficient and effectively governed systems.
ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY AND
EMPOWER ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS
Gender bias is undermining our social fabric and devalues all of us. It is not just a human rights issue; it is a
tremendous waste of the world’s human potential. By denying women equal rights, we deny half the
population a chance to live life at its fullest. Political, economic and social equality for women will
benefit all the world’s citizens. Together we can eradicate prejudice and work for equal rights and
respect for all.
 TARGET 5.1

END DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN AND

GIRLS
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.

TARGET 5.2

END ALL VIOLENCE AGAINST AND EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual
and other types of exploitation.

TARGET 5.3

ELIMINATE FORCED MARRIAGES AND GENITAL MUTILATION

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.

TARGET 5.4
VALUE UNPAID CARE AND PROMOTE SHARED DOMESTIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social
protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate.
TARGET 5.5
ENSURE FULL PARTICIPATION IN LEADERSHIP AND DECISION-MAKING
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of
decision-making in political, economic and public life.

TARGET 5.6
UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in
accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.

TARGET 5.7
EQUAL RIGHTS TO ECONOMIC RESOURCES, PROPERTY OWNERSHIP AND
FINANCIAL SERVICES
ndertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership
nd control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources,
n accordance with national laws.
 TARGET 5.8

PROMOTE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology,
to promote the empowerment of women.

TARGET 5.9

ADOPT AND STRENGTHEN POLICIES AND ENFORCEABLE LEGISLATION FOR

GENDER EQUALITY
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.
Clean water and sanitation
Clean water and sanitation